NB: This event is one week later than is typical.
About our Presenter:
Born in Lafayette, Indiana, William O. Stephens was raised in West Lafayette, the second son of Purdue University professors. At West Lafayette Senior High School he earned varsity letters in tennis and began learning about ancient civilizations and Latin with an inspiring teacher named Oliver S. Oesch. After two years at the College of Wooster in Ohio studying philosophy with James Coke Haden and Latin with Joe and Leslie P. Day, Stephens transferred to Earlham, a Quaker college in Richmond, Indiana. At Earlham he studied philosophy with Robert Horn and Peter Suber, Greek and Latin with Steve Heiny and Liffey Thorpe, and played varsity tennis (doubles). After receiving a B.A. from Earlham in 1984, Stephens pursued graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. At Penn he studied with Charles H. Kahn, Alexander Nehamas, and Martin Ostwald, and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1990. After thirty years on the College of Arts and Sciences faculty at Creighton University in Omaha he was promoted from Professor of Philosophy to Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in December 2020.
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